[lbo-talk] Gore gets prickly

[R]

this raises questions not only about the demands of his move to los angeles
but his general health.  his book isn't one of his best but contains several
bon mots, such as comparing the war on terrorism to a war on dandruff.
perhaps he's fed up with what's easily perceived as the general lunacy of
the USA.

R

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
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Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 6:13 AM
Subject: [lbo-talk] Gore gets prickly

New York Post [Page Six] - June 10, 2004

SILENT GORE

BUSH-bashing belletrist Gore Vidal is refusing to promote his new
book, "Imperial America." The tome, just out from Thunder's Mouth
Press, consists of anti-Bush diatribes and articles Vidal wrote in
the Nation, Esquire and elsewhere from 1975-2004. But Vidal recently
canceled interviews for the book, which has gotten a lukewarm
reception, and told the publishers he'd only give them three days of
his time to promote it. "He's very prickly," huffed a Thunder's Mouth
insider. "He won't even talk to us directly. We have to go through
his editor at the Nation." A rep for the publisher says Vidal's time
was "unexpectedly cut short."
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